Posts tagged “League of Legends World Championships 2016”

After five weeks of League of Legends' World Championships ping-ponging across the United States from venue to venue and gradually shedding teams the final contenders, SK Telecom T1 and Samsung Galaxy, went head-to-head at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the deciding best-of-five. I appreciate a bunch of you might be waiting to watch the rebroadcast or be saving up the VODs to watch…

League of Legends' World Championships tournament is about to reach its 2016 conclusion with the Grand Finals in Los Angeles' Staples Center. The finalists comprise two of the LCK's top teams (that's the Korean domestic league, in case you're new to professional LoL), SK Telecom T1 and Samsung Galaxy. They will be playing for over $2m* as well as the "best in the world" title,…

This weekend saw reigning champions, SK Telecom T1, take on Korean League's domestic champions ROX Tigers in a spectacular best-of-five which immediately earned a place as one of the greatest matches of any League of Legends World Championships to date. It's definitely the best I've seen, and it occupied my thoughts for most of the following day. I even found myself pondering bits of it…

Here's a quick and dirty guide to this week's League of Legends World Championships semifinals match-ups if you've not been following the story so far! The TL;DR if even a quick and dirty guide is too much reading is that there will be at least one Korean team in the finals no matter how the weekend matches play out and Europe's path towards the Summoner's…

The semi-finalists for League of Legends' 2016 World Championships have been determined thanks to a long weekend of Chicago-based MOBA-ing for the quarterfinals. But did the wildcards make it through? Are Europe and North America still in with a shot at the title? Did anyone manage to elbow SKT aside on their way to the Summoner's Cup? I'll let you know who got through after…

League of Legends' [official site] tentpole/flagship event, the World Championships, is ramping up the pressure as we reach the knockout stage. There's a $1m top prize and a ridiculously enormous cup at stake but what if you've not been keeping up with the story so far? That's where this primer comes in! Here's what you need to know if you're only just dipping your toes…

It's THAT time of year. And by "THAT time of year" I mean the time of year when someone has to try to topple Imagine Dragons' Warriors from its throne as the best League of Legends World Championship anthem of all time. 2016 is the turn of Zedd and Riot's collaboration - Ignite, with its cool video and references to Faker's broccoli japery from 2015…

League Of Legends' [official site] annual World Championship is fast approaching and the team at Riot have just detailed a few changes they'll be making to the game in advance of the tournament. It primarily revolves around the laneswap meta so if you have no idea what one of those is or why this matters, read on!

League of Legends [official site] will be tracing a gigantic fang across the United States of America with the locations for 2016's League of Legends World Championships (picture of fang can be found further down this article). In case you don't follow professional League of Legends, Worlds is the culmination of the various professional seasons around the globe. This year it will ping-pong across the…